Grammar & Syntax Make #MOOC Debut

…here's an online writing course worth taking a look at…

…in Course Taught by Stanford Scientist on Coursera

Here\'s a really bad sentence: \"This paper provides a review of the basic tenets of cancer biology study design, using as examples studies that illustrate the methodologic challenges or that demonstrate successful solutions to the difficulties inherent in biological research.\"

Kristin Sainani - epidemiologist, statistician and writer - teaches scientists not to write like that. She does it in a classroom at Stanford\'s School of Medicine, and, since late September, she does it online

1213 Grammar and Syntax Make Their MOOC Debut in Course Taught by Stanford Scientist

invitation to a #mooc on moocs (in #highered)

…aka MoocMooc (already using the word too many times, suggesting a mooc³), will mooc its way around the tubz and distribute on networks six days, next week, August 12-18. Have the good #hybridped folk putting it on seen, Gordon's adaptation of José Bogado's la vaca de los sinvaca’?

"Yeah," so we muttered amongst ourselves over at Change11, CMC11 and POTcert Facebook groups, "aren't they all?"  

Doomed or Lucky? Predicting the Future of the Internet Generation

According to Mindshift and the Pew Foundation's Future of the Internet V survey, there is still no consensus when it comes to the internet or predicting the future. Has there ever been? As the common expression about relationships goes, "it's complicated." Whatever, the results are relevant, each in its own way to the (more or less) varying MOOCs underway, hence the post even if not following any of the assignments. That's autonomous for you,

photo by Flickr

Looking into the proverbial crystal ball, a slew of technology experts weighed in on the Future of the Internet V survey conducted by Pew Research and Elon University, and came up with a predictably mixed scenario: It’s complicated.

Asked to consider the future of the Internet-connected world between now and 2020 and to choose from two statements, of the total 1,021 responses, 55% agreed with this optimistic view:

Multi(ple): literacies, tasking, connecting, networking #MOOC/s

Would that be multimoocquing (or however spelled)? I favor qu for the hard c. Getting ahead of myself (we can do that here), I came across "Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy" in CMC1l readings for week. The article struck me as MOOC and Multiliteracies relevant even if it uses the word "collaboration" too often. Call it coollaporation and let it be, let it be ...

eduMOOC: Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow

Highly Recommended: take this course as an overlap with / followup to StudyCom's Online Teacher Training Course. Also tagged for and bundled with ELT Online. If you've never taken a MOOC or Massive Open Online Course, you are in for a surprise a treat and/or a real eye-opener... an educational experience to say the least. Watching the two (linked and on the page) videos , What is a MOOC? and What is 'success' in a MOOC? will help prepare you for the actual course.

"The Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield welcomes you to a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) on “Online Learning Today...and Tomorrow.” It will begin June 27, 2011 and run for eight weeks. It is totally open, free, and collaborative. It can be totally asynchronous, or those attending can join in weekly panel discussions with experts in various aspects of the topic. This is an active and growing resource and networking center on the topic of 'Online Learning Today, and Tomorrow.' You will have the opportunity to meet many people around the world who share your interest in this topic."

Weeks 1-8:

• 1. Online Learning Today
• 4. Online Learning Apps and Mobile Learning
• 5. Public, Private & Open - Online Learning
• 6. Personal Online Learning Networks
• 7. Collaboratives, Collectives and Clouds
• 8. Online Learning Tomorrow 2011-2021

...the rest of the story at eduMOOC: Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow

Doing (multiple) MOOCs + Multiliteracies

I am currently registered in and trying to follow one online workshop and two MOOCs. Vance Stevens, who is conducting the online workshop, (TESOL's EVO or Electronic Village Online Multiliteracies , responded that he was considering designating Multiliteracies a MOOC or Miniscule Open Online Course. Comparing the courses, finding connections, is as much my goal and ongoing blog topic as surviving the experience without my head exploding. 

All three are populated with repeaters. The light finally went on. Since these are networks are part of my immediate (maybe longterm) learning network, I should draw on them, ask who else is in multiple open courses and how they handle them, navigate the chaos. What strategies, tools, practices, tips can they (YOU) share?  

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 Hi there ~ I know a number of evomlit-ers (or however we designate ourselves) are taking one or more concurrent MOOCs, in addition to Multiliteracies?

I've been wondering: